The Alternate Blues

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The Alternate Blues
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Studio album by
Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Freddie Hubbard
Released1980
RecordedMarch 10, 1980
StudioGroup IV Studios, Los Angeles
Genre Jazz
Length40:01
Label Pablo Today [1]
Producer Norman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4
(1980)		The Alternate Blues
(1980)		 Digital at Montreux, 1980
(1980)
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The Alternate Blues is a 1980 album featuring the trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, and Freddie Hubbard, supported by a quartet led by Oscar Peterson. It was recorded at Group IV Studios, Los Angeles on March 10, 1980. [5] With one exception, the tracks were previously unissued recordings from The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 . [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Alternate Blues": Alternate One – 5:33
  2. "Alternate Blues": Alternate Two – 8:04
  3. "Alternate Blues": Alternate Three – 9:05
  4. "Alternate Blues": Alternate Four – 9:36
  5. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) – 8:55
  6. Ballad Medley: "Here's That Rainy Day"/"The Gypsy"/"If I Should Lose You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)/(Billy Reid)/(Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 7:37

Personnel

Source: [5]

References

  1. ↑ McRae, Barry (April 11, 2012). Dizzy Gillespie: His Life and Times. Omnibus Press. ISBN   9780857128287 – via Google Books.
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. "Dizzy Gillespie: The Alternate Blues". AllMusic . Retrieved April 10, 2020.
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 555. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 281.
  5. 1 2 "Fantasy Records Catalog: OJC 700 Series". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved April 10, 2020.



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